Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / October 2005

Hi

I've been looking at plib - a portable games library. I got it built and
installed OK but have come across a strange compile error. I have
distilled it down to this:

---start---
#include "ul.h"
//#include <plib/ul.h>

int main()
{
 return 0;
}
----end----

If I include from a local copy of the header it works - but it fails if I use
the system include variant. It complains about a bunch of overloaded inline
functions:

/usr/include/plib/ul.h: In function 'void ulEndianSwap(short unsigned int*)':
/usr/include/plib/ul.h:342: error: declaration of C function 'void ulEndianSwap(short unsigned int*)' conflicts with
/usr/include/plib/ul.h:333: error: previous declaration 'void ulEndianSwap(unsigned int*)' here

and much more in a similar vein...

It looks like it's treating the header as a C header rather than C++ - why would
that be? Any ideas?

I've put a copy of ul.h up at <http://weatherley.net/src/ul.h>